Time for the fourth round in the third championship! In skillz test #27439 we'll be running our faces purple on "Dude, Where's My Sewage" by Damian Kulot. Easy run and easy 100% demos should be in our inbox no later than Midnight CET, Wednesday May 2nd 2007.

Everyone who participates will be rewarded with points to get a position in The Third SDA Championship ladder! Thus; MAKE DEMOS!

Get all the demos of this awesome update filled with 100%s here.

The last update lacked an ID Single Player record. Two players realized this is not a desired situation and sent their demos in. Arturo Garcia Lasca is at it again! This time he has managed to apply enough smoothness to improve Stubby by no more and no less than 5 seconds, in The Grizzly Grotto Nightmare 100%, meaning he managed a shiny 2:04. We'd only wish his wife would let him play more :)

Somewhere else on the ID front, we can witness a comeback of Nolans 2006 Rookie of the Year, after 3 months with no demos. I still don't have enough of The Nameless City Easy 100%. This time I improved myself by 4 seconds to get 2:35. Not only do I manage to manipulate zombies into being more helpful and I get a lot better start, but I also use the already classic trick with zapping an enemy through the wall. In fact, as a highlight of todays update, I have made a writeup on the latest research on the lightning bug specifics. It's still not finished, the anomalies still need to be explored further, but this document should give you a few ideas to improve some demos. Get to work, slackers!

Then, Michael Hudson decided doing a rogue demo will be a good addition to the update. This 9 second improvement over himself, 3:32 on r2m7 Easy 100% is a very good watch when you want to see some fast monster slaying. Then he has improved old demos by Ilkka. He took a few tries at the evilwrld map. First, he has improved the NH by a minimal second to get 1:33. Then he realized it sucks and he sent in a better 1:28. He also took the Easy 100%, again by a minimal second needed, just enough to get 1:27. Shame on him.

The Florida co-oper is starting to get Single Player records. This time Adam Lewandowski improved both 100%s on mexx1: Easy skill fell down to 0:51, a 3 second improvement over Aleksander Osipov. Then, after changing the 'skill' variable to a lot nicer '3', he recorded a 0:59 beating Morfans by 7 seconds. Finally, he left the skill variable in peace, however he changed the map to hotel and has beaten the NH by Rickard Axelsson to get 0:49, 7 seconds off.

The infamous trackballer has made some demos as well. First Basil de Vries tried bub2. He recorded an EH in 0:25, which is a self-beater, 3 seconds off. Then, he sent another one in, this time mysteriously named 'nh'. However, it was recorded on easy skill. Silly Orbs :).
He also got two 100%s on tcoa. EH beaten Jaakko Alakopsa by 14 secs to get 3:40. NH is a tablefiller, 4:08. Basil took his chance to be silly again and sent a wrong .txt file for the NH, whoops.

David Spickermann remembered the quake section mail address and sent a few demos after quite a lot of time without one. Starting with pushcoag EH, he first got a 1:50, 4 seconds better than Stefan Schwoon, and then he improved it to 1:48 for a 6 second improvement in total. He also took his chance at ih1m4 Nightmare Run, getting a 7 second improvement over Dan Stukanev. 0:27 is a lot better, don't you think? It's actually a very nice demo, great effort from Dave.

Back to tcoa, Tom Nguyen has made a tablefiller for the NR place, 0:32 is the time he achieved.

FLORIDA COOPS!

Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski:

• mexx1
  • Easy 100% in 0:32, beating Aleksander Osipov and Jaakko Alakopsa by 6 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:36, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 11 seconds.
• catacomb
  • Easy 100% in 0:33, beating Evan Wagner and Cameron Engles by 1 second.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:33, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 7 seconds.
• jjspq1 Easy 100% in 1:47, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 27 seconds.
• maniac11
  • Easy 100% in 0:42, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 8 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:42, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 8 seconds.
• trinity
  • Easy 100% in 0:59, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 18 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:59, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 20 seconds.
• whippet
  • Easy 100% in 0:15, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:16, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 3 seconds.

Jason Hochreiter, John Van Dusen and Adam Lewandowski on bbelief3:

• Easy Run in 0:08, beating Josh Zayas, Warren Hammond and Bruce Wayne by 3 seconds.
• Nightmare Run in 0:08, beating Pif de Mestre, Luc de Mestre and Andre de Mestre by 4 seconds.

I told you it was filled with 100%s. Also, the ALL maps and ALL demos collection have been updated on April 12th.

Get the usual dzipped package of demos here.

It turns out the next year came pretty fast. Yes, that's right, we (dex and NahkahiiR) are joining the SDA team! So, expect more updates from now on. That is, if we don't get lazy :). Right, lets get to the demos...

• Termination Central 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:54 by Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski, beating Justin Fleck and Evan Wagner by 1 second.
  dex: Hooray at ID coops! I like all the cooperation in this demo, very cool.
  NahkahiiR: You can run it better, although this wasn't bad. :)
  
  
• Azure Agony 3-Player Nightmare 100% in 1:45 by Thomas Stubgaard, Jaakko Alakopsa and Michael Hudson, beating themselves by 15 seconds.
  dex: Whoa, very, very nice! I especially like how Stubgaard makes it look almost as good as his SP demos. All players played their parts great.
  NahkahiiR: It's funny that there are so many quads in this map. They are used well tbh. :)
  
  
• r2m2 Nightmare 100% in 2:08 by Paul Davies, beating Nolan Pflug by 14 seconds.
  dex: Welcome back Lag, and congratulations on the TO. Those rogue maps can be a big pain on Nightmare...
  NahkahiiR: Looks a bit messy, but as I have never completed this level, I can say it is ok. :)
  
  
• mexx10b Nightmare Run in 1:44 by Flavio Quadros, beating himself by 19 seconds.
  dex: This one has got a fair share of close to death moments, a great demo all in all.
  NahkahiiR: Good surviving skills in the middle of that shower of enemy fire!
  
  
• Adam Lewandowski:
  • black3 Easy 100% in 1:21, beating Mads-Peter Stubgaard by 4 seconds.
    dex: A pretty fine demo from the Florida cooper. A few shots were unfortunate, but great job overall. More SP demos please!
    NahkahiiR: Nice to see this newbie showing his skills in the SP front as well. :)
    
    
  • funrun
    • Easy 100% in 1:21, beating Pif de Mestre by 17 seconds.
      dex: Very nice. SP demos are always fun, even though the map is crap...
      NahkahiiR: I like the ending of this demo, as both the player and the fiend are flying towards the exit. :)
      
      
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:21, beating Pif de Mestre by 17 seconds.
      dex: Pretty much the same as the EH.
      NahkahiiR: Not as entertaining as the ez skill demo. :)
      
      
  • hotel Easy 100% in 0:38, beating Rickard Axelsson by 1 second.
    dex: I like how smooth the demo looks. Good going Adam!
    NahkahiiR: The weirdest hotel that I have seen, but Adam greets every visitor evenly.
    
    
  • nesp16 Nightmare Run in 0:44, beating Pif de Mestre by 34 seconds.
    dex: Vore ball jumps are always great to see in the demo.
    NahkahiiR: Some balls were needed, and they were used very well!
    
    
• Jaakko Alakopsa:
  • coagula3 Nightmare 100% in 3:38, beating Basil de Vries by 2 seconds.
    dex: It could have been done better...
    NahkahiiR: I borrowed the record from Basil. :)
    
    
  • sm24_aard
    • Easy 100% in 2:41, beating Paul Davies by 11 seconds.
      dex: Smooth killing of all the monsters is a pleasure to watch.
      NahkahiiR: A bit faster than NH, but who cares, crap map. :)
      
      
    • Nightmare 100% in 2:41, beating Pif de Mestre by 33 seconds.
      dex: And again, nice.
      NahkahiiR: Same shit in a different package.
      
      
• Basil de Vries on coagula3:
  • Nightmare 100% in 3:30, beating Jaakko Alakopsa by 8 seconds.
    dex: ...still could have been better....
    NahkahiiR: Then he declared an improvement war by making a faster demo...
    
    
  • Nightmare 100% in 3:02, beating himself by 28 seconds.
    dex: ...like this :). Good demo, killing of enemies goes swiftly.
    NahkahiiR: And finally got bored of waiting as I was busy with Nolans stuff and used a better route. Looks decent. :)
    
    
• funrun Easy 100% in 1:32 by Damian Kulot, not a record.
  dex: That one got to us after Adam submitted his own demo.
  NahkahiiR: Nice one, but too late. Better "luck" next time. :)
  
  
• Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski:
  • dmc1m3 Easy 100% in 0:18, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 1 second.
    dex: I like coops from those guys, nice cooperation there!
    NahkahiiR: Good looking demo on a good looking map. :)
    
    
  • funrun
    • Easy Run in 0:24, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
      dex: Ugly map, still the demo looks very nice.
      NahkahiiR: I did not see that last boost coming.
      
      
    • Easy 100% in 0:49, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 8 seconds.
      dex: I like the boosts in this demo. And killing went efficiently.
      NahkahiiR: Nothing extraordinary, nice demo.
      
      
    • Nightmare Run in 0:25, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 3 seconds.
      dex: Pretty much the same as the ER.
      NahkahiiR: This time I saw it coming.
      
      
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:51, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 6 seconds.
      dex: ....and this one is close to the EH :)
      NahkahiiR: Somewhat inaccurate shooting, overall ok. I hope they are done with this map. :)
      
      
  • sadlark7
    • Easy Run in 0:44, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
      dex: Those guys are just getting better and better. That big boost was a nice touch.
      NahkahiiR: If demos were able to be read, I'd read this before going to sleep. I enjoyed watching it.
      
      
    • Easy 100% in 1:23, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 11 seconds.
      dex: Very nice coop action as well. I'm eager to see even more from them :)
      NahkahiiR: These guys are on fire. :)
      
      
  • shoot
    • Easy 100% in 0:22, beating Carl Tholin and Johan Nilsson by 1 second.
      dex: High speeds are a good sight in a coop demo.
      NahkahiiR: Nice boost. :)
      
      
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:32, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 14 seconds.
      dex: Again, a fine demo.
      NahkahiiR: I like it how the second room was cleared as spawns seemed to act calm. :)
      
      
• well 2-Player Easy 100% in 2:23 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 27 seconds.
  dex: NahkahiiR's role went great, Orbs didn't stand too much behind either.
  NahkahiiR: The waiting place is such a playground. Basil's part was tougher.
  
  

Yep, that's it. Oh wait... we forgot something, yeah there are still a few things left.

A new remstud2 build has been released, grab it HERE.
The craziest Dane ever, Thomas Stubgaard recorded a new demo for Qd100Qst project, and the first recams have aired. Find them HERE.

The traditional award ceremony was on break last year, and now it has been brought back to you. The mighty results from this year's event can be found HERE. Thanks to all players and voters. It was pretty fun to do the ceremony, and we also had a few of the "oldschool" players join up.

See you next year!

So it's been nearly a month since the last demo update, and we could, maybe even should, trot out some excuses.

The big, big, BIG dzip is here. It's 28 megs packed, unpacks to over 350 megs and if you watch all the demos contained herein without going to the toilet then you might need serious medical attention. It may quite possibly be the largest update in SDA history, but it would only be medium sized without the amazing efforts of Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter. Adam and Jason: we salute you! Everyone else: pull your fingers out!

In the traditional bullet style, we have 127 demos:

• Shub-Niggurath's Pit Easy 100% in 0:34 by Flavio Quadros, beating Thomas Stubgaard by 1 second.
• Marlo Galinski sent in three monumental Nightmare 100% marathons:
  • The Realm of Black Magic in 16:41 beating Thomas Stubgaard by 35 seconds.
  • The Elder World in 21:10 beating himself by 17 seconds.
  • All of Quake in 68:49 beating Justin Fleck by 44 seconds.
• Azure Agony 3-Player Nightmare 100% in 2:00 by Thomas Stubgaard, Jaakko Alakopsa and Michael Hudson, tablefiller (2 player time 2:18).
• Michael Hudson on r2m7:
  • Easy 100% in 3:55, beating Nolan Pflug by 9 seconds.
  • Easy 100% in 3:41, beating himself by 14 seconds.
  • Nightmare 100% in 4:15, beating Nolan Pflug by 4 seconds.
• Jaakko Alakopsa:
  • bbelief1 Nightmare 100% in 1:57, beating Aleksander Osipov by 2 seconds.
  • nesp10
    • Nightmare 100% in 3:12, beating Richard Skidmore by 71 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 3:01, beating himself by 11 seconds.
  • tyrcoag
    • Easy 100% in 2:26, beating Basil de Vries by 34 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 4:43, beating Basil de Vries by 62 seconds.
• Dmitry Dementjev:
  • czgtoxic
    • Easy Run in 0:24, beating Daniel Andersson by 1 second.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:25, beating Daniel Andersson by 1 second.
  • q1tm3_hrim2_V2 Easy Run in 0:20, beating himself by 3 seconds (this demo is so fast we thought it was cheated, but it turned out to only be a small script which is just about OK).
  • sm24_aard
    • Easy Run in 0:47, beating himself by 3 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:50, beating himself by 4 seconds.
• dm3rmx Nightmare 100% in 6:16 by Richard Skidmore, tablefiller.
• Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries:
  • coagula3
    • Easy 100% in 1:25, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 16 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 2:32, tablefiller (single player time 3:40).
  • tyrcoag Easy 100% in 1:33, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 31 seconds.
• Adam Lewandowski, James Gray and Jason Hochreiter:
  • elin Nightmare 100% in 0:10, beating Basil de Vries, Paul Davies and David Spickermann by 2 seconds.
  • misery
    • Easy 100% in 0:18, tablefiller (2 player time 0:23).
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:18, tablefiller (2 player time 0:23).
• Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter (this bit goes on for some considerable distance):
  • hip2m4
    • Easy Run in 0:30, beating Evan Wagner and Cameron Engles by 3 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:31, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 7 seconds.
  • bbelief1
    • Easy 100% in 0:54, beating Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck by 2 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:12, tablefiller (single player time 0:15).
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:08, beating Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck by 5 seconds.
  • bbelief3
    • Easy Run in 0:28, beating Jozsef Szalontai and Attila Csernyik by 1 second.
    • Easy 100% in 1:06, beating Evan Wagner and Cameron Engles by 4 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:30, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 7 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:25, beating Evan Wagner and Nolan Pflug by 10 seconds.
  • mexx2 Easy 100% in 0:17, beating Jaakko Alakopsa and Paul Davies by 1 second.
  • mexx3
    • Easy Run in 0:29, beating Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson by 1 second.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:33, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 11 seconds.
  • mexx4
    • Easy Run in 1:14, tablefiller (single player time 1:22).
    • Easy 100% in 1:42, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 32 seconds.
  • mexx9c Easy Run in 1:06, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 10 seconds.
  • mexx10
    • Easy Run in 1:07, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
    • Easy 100% in 2:08, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 39 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 1:30, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 51 seconds.
  • mexx10b
    • Easy Run in 1:01, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 14 seconds.
    • Easy 100% in 1:54, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 17 seconds.
  • black3
    • Easy Run in 1:05, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds.
    • Easy 100% in 1:11, beating Justin Fleck and Evan Wagner by 6 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 1:07, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 5 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:27, tablefiller (single player time 1:58).
  • zer1m1
    • Easy Run in 0:31, beating Evan Wagner and Nolan Pflug by 1 second.
    • Easy 100% in 0:34, beating Evan Wagner and Nolan Pflug by 5 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:34, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:45, tablefiller (single player time 0:59).
  • dazsp2 Nightmare 100% in 0:41, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
  • dazsp2b Easy 100% in 1:22, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 5 seconds.
  • dm6sp Easy 100% in 0:31, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
  • dmc1m4
    • Easy 100% in 0:36, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 5 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:30, tablefiller (single player time 1:56).
  • badland1
    • Easy 100% in 1:07, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:13, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 17 seconds.
  • blister2
    • Easy Run in 0:48, tablefiller (single player time 0:52).
    • Easy 100% in 1:13, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 13 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:48, tablefiller (single player time 0:54).
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:13, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 13 seconds.
  • cappuccino_v2 Easy 100% in 1:38, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 19 seconds.
  • carnage
    • Easy 100% in 1:01, beating Johan Nilsson and Carl Tholin by 12 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:47, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 9 seconds.
  • chessp1
    • Easy 100% in 0:39, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 8 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:54, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 18 seconds.
  • colony
    • Easy Run in 0:15, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 1 second.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:59, tablefiller (single player time 1:40).
  • con1
    • Easy 100% in 0:15, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 2 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:15, beating Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson by 1 second.
  • crypt
    • Easy 100% in 0:59, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:04, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 12 seconds.
  • damaul3b
    • Easy Run in 0:24, tablefiller (single player time 0:25).
    • Easy 100% in 0:40, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 6 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:24, tablefiller (single player time 0:27).
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:40, tablefiller (single player time 1:17).
  • dnspq1
    • Easy 100% in 0:19, beating Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson by 3 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:31, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 3 seconds.
  • dwell
    • Easy Run in 0:33, beating Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson by 1 second, but missing Connor by a second...
    • Easy 100% in 1:03, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 5 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:13, tablefiller (single player time 1:31).
  • earth
    • Easy 100% in 1:07, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 21 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:13, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 29 seconds.
  • ebony1 Easy 100% in 0:43, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 10 seconds.
  • erotique
    • Easy 100% in 1:01, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 7 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:19, tablefiller (single player time 1:28).
  • frcastl2
    • Easy 100% in 0:23, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 5 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:23, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 5 seconds.
  • gor1
    • Easy 100% in 1:37, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 17 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:57, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 27 seconds.
  • heresp1 Easy 100% in 0:34, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 5 seconds.
  • hunter
    • Easy Run in 0:43, beating Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson by 2 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:44, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
  • jailbrk
    • Easy Run in 1:12, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 1 second.
    • Easy 100% in 1:27, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 1:12, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 2 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:27, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 12 seconds.
  • mortal
    • Easy Run in 0:19, beating Mathias Thore and Robert Maglic by 2 seconds.
    • Easy 100% in 0:37, beating Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson by 3 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:19, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 3 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:40, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 18 seconds.
  • oblivion Nightmare Run in 0:10, beating Robert Axelsson and Alexander Lindgren by 1 second.
  • prison
    • Easy 100% in 0:34, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 6 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:34, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 6 seconds.
  • rit2
    • Easy 100% in 1:14, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 19 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:18, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 22 seconds.
  • royalwar Nightmare 100% in 1:04, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 10 seconds.
  • shoot
    • Easy Run in 0:10, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 1 second.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:11, beating Robert Axelsson and Rickard Axelsson by 1 second.
  • sm27_xenon
    • Easy 100% in 0:31, beating Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson by 2 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:32, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 4 seconds.
  • sm56_czg
    • Easy 100% in 0:40, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 6 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:42, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 8 seconds.
  • terror Easy 100% in 1:14, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
  • tower Easy Run in 0:10, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 1 second.
  • trr
    • Easy 100% in 1:05, beating Justin Fleck and Evan Wagner by 6 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:05, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 13 seconds.
  • ware
    • Easy Run in 0:11, beating Attila Csernyik and Peter Horvath by 1 second.
    • Easy 100% in 0:23, beating Aleksander Osipov and Jaakko Alakopsa by 4 seconds.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:12, beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 1 second.
    • Nightmare 100% in 0:26, beating Aleksander Osipov and Jaakko Alakopsa by 4 seconds.
  • warehaus
    • Easy Run in 0:42, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds.
    • Easy 100% in 1:12, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 10 seconds.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:19, beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 33 seconds.

Remember to vote for the Nolans!

There should probably be some other stuff here, but you haven't read this far anyway, have you?

Guess you didn't expect to see our ugly faces here, now did you? Don't worry, this is just a one time update. And the reason for it is the event we worked to prepare for you. We're proud to give you the 6th Annual Speedrunning Academy Awards, also known as...

The Nolans 2006!

That's right folks, this early into the year, you'll get the chance to vote on the best demos and best players that happened to play Quake in 2006. It was real fun to select nominees, and now it's up to you to do the best choices. Let the party begin! Without any further rambling, go vote here!

All demos download for this update can be found here.

• Azure Agony Nightmare 100% in 3:16 by Thomas Stubgaard, beating himself by 7 seconds.
  lodis: Mostly solid shotgun aim, and I love how he exits with only 5 shotgun shells left.
  Mandel:: As with all his recent demos, this one shows how Stubgaard plays Nightmare as if it was Easy. Quake is really missing a fifth skill tuned for this mad hacking Dane.
  mwh: I think this demo is less accurate but more aggressive than the previous one... enough quibbling, it rocks.
  Stubgaard: More or less the same route as in my previous demo except for a few changes, mainly in the silver key room. Got lucky with the zombies in the ceiling!

• bc2 Easy Run in 0:34 by Dmitry Dementjev, beating Fabian Kollakowski by 1 second.
  lodis: This map is not pretty, I've played it :(
  mwh: Another old demo improved.
  Stubgaard: I suppose this one could be improved another second by shooting the ogre you need to pass with only 8 shotgun shells instead of the usual 9 :-)

• catacomb Easy 100% in 0:53 by Damian Kulot, beating himself by 4 seconds.
  lodis: Nice, Ankh is getting better and better. Next step: intermission nails?
  mwh: Maybe a map starting with D next?
  Stubgaard: Still on the same old level I see... ;-)

• con1 Easy 100% in 0:18 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating himself by 1 second.
  lodis: Ugly fucker of a map, but fun to play.
  mwh: How many more seconds can go?
  Stubgaard: Fighting against the fractions.

• con1 Nightmare 100% in 0:18 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating himself by 1 second.
  lodis: Can 17 be done with this route? You can't miss many shots, that's for sure.
  mwh: How many more seconds can go?, on skill 3.
  Stubgaard: Fighting against the fractions part 2.

• hellvill Easy Run in 0:25 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating Rickard Axelsson by 2 seconds.
  lodis: 22 or 23 would a cool time.
  mwh: Stack 'em up and flyyyyyyyyyyy!
  Stubgaard: One of my favorite demos in this update.

• hellvill Nightmare Run in 0:26 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating Rickard Axelsson by 3 seconds.
  lodis: Damn hellknight :((
  mwh: Stack 'em up and flyyyyyyyyyyy!
  Stubgaard: Thomas has a fetish for headbutting Death Knights...

• q1tm3_hrim_V2 Easy 100% in 3:25 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
  lodis: Interesting route!
  mwh: I'm sure there's an intended route to this map, but I don't know what it is.
  Stubgaard: Sweet route!

• q1tm3_hrim_V2 Nightmare 100% in 6:17 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
  lodis: It's ok, but it needs more balls.
  mwh: Needs more Morfans!
  Stubgaard: My estimated guess before Jaakko began running this map was 6 minutes for the NH... I came pretty close!

• q1tm3_hrim2_V2 Easy Run in 0:25 by Dmitry Dementjev, beating Thomas Bergendorff by 2 seconds.
  lodis: Oooh nice route, I didn't see that coming.
  mwh: Slopey slopey.
  Stubgaard: No comment.

• q1tm3_hrim2_V2 Easy Run in 0:23 by Dmitry Dementjev, beating himself by 2 seconds.
  lodis: ..and here's the cleaner version, nice.
  mwh: A bit faster.
  Stubgaard: A bit of jumping and a bit of running...

• q1tm3_hrim2_V2 Nightmare 100% in 4:03 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
  lodis: Cute!
  mwh: Hang on, I meant to say I don't know if this map has an intended route...
  Stubgaard: Not bad, not bad, but you can do better Jaakko ;-)

• q1tm3_hrim2_V2 2-Player Easy 100% in 1:04 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Aleksander Osipov, tablefiller (SP time 1:49).
  lodis: Haven't seen it.
  mwh: Jump around!
  Stubgaard: Clever route planning. Good demos.

• sm24_aard Easy Run in 0:50 by Dmitry Dementjev, beating himself by 4 seconds.
  lodis: Nice boosting!
  mwh: I'm dizzy now.
  Stubgaard: This map confuses the piss outta me! All the rocketboosting doesn't make it any easier NOT to get disorientated...

• tcoa Easy Run in 0:23 by Flavio Quadros, beating Thomas Bergendorff by 8 seconds.
  lodis: Wow. Now I'm waiting for someone mad enough to boost all the way to the top.
  mwh: At least Flavio didn't beat my demo by 10 seconds on the same route :-)
  Stubgaard: I did NOT see this one coming! Very clever demo, thumbs up Mr Quadros.

• tcoa 2-Player Easy 100% in 2:14 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Mathias Thore, tablefiller (SP time 3:54).
  lodis: Nice flying!
  mwh: Needs more players! Like, 4 or 5 more players...
  Stubgaard: It seems that Jaakko has a fetish for buttblasting Mathias...

We've opened the doors for another Quake done Quick project. This will be a follow up to the Rabbit Run. This time we won't focus so much on time improvements, mainly because most of the maps are already considered "optimal", but instead we'll try and focus on smoother/better looking demos, creative style, etc etc. Robert Maglic recorded a faster demo for e2m6 just yesterday and it's one hell of a bombastic demo! Check out the new project, named Quake done Quickest lite, right here!

Also, the Bunny Comparison page has been updated twice over the last few days.

If you're looking to add forty-five more demos to your collection, click right here.

Yes, FORTY FIVE.

• Demos on ID MAPS:

  • the Ogre Citadel Nightmare 100% in 1:21 by Thomas Stubgaard, beating Martin Selinus by 2 seconds.
    Lag.Com: Nice route. Only muppets get .0 though!
    Mandel: Ever since I started reading the SDA tables, I have wondered why this record belonged to someone other than Stubgaard. Now I don't need to wonder anymore :)
    mwh: I was surprised Stubgaard did this, he's always been so adamant about how much he hates the map... nice result though!
    Stubgaard: My initial goal was just to improve it by whatever I could, and then submit... Definitely not my best ID demo, but the map is horrible for NH so this will have to do... for now :-)

  • Termination Central Easy 100% in 1:04 by Arturo Garcia Lasca, beating himself by 5 seconds.
    Lag.Com: Ken's demos always give me motion sickness... :(
    Mandel: I wouldn't have expected that route change to save this much time! Well done.
    mwh: I was surprised that it took so long from Johnathan's post of the new route on the forum to a demo... the result was faster than I expected though.
    Stubgaard: Neat route tweak.

  • the Palace of Hate 2-Player Easy 100% in 1:08 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Aleksander Osipov, beating Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries by 5 seconds.
    Lag.Com: Great play from both players there. What I wonder is why Jaakko ignores the bridge...
    Mandel: There must be forty thousand possible routes on this map in single player mode alone...
    mwh: Go go Finland!
    Stubgaard: This demo makes the one Martin and I did over LAN sometime in 2002 seem quite bad...

• Demos on NEW MAPS:

  • q1tm3_hrim_V2

    • Easy Run in
      • 0:24 by Jaakko Alakopsa
      • 0:23 by Jaakko Alakopsa
      • 0:18 by Jaakko Alakopsa
      • 0:17 by Mathias Thore
      Lag.Com: Such an epic map cut down to size!
      Mandel: Thanks Jaakko for the route :P
      mwh: I can't do this slope jump.
      Stubgaard: Stealing someone else's route are we... tsk tsk... It's the proper way to do it though :-)
    • An Easy 100% has been done, but we're too disorganized to include it.
    • Nightmare Run in 0:17 by Mathias Thore.
      Lag.Com: I thought Nightmare was supposed to be harder!
      Mandel: Apparently, Jaakko's route also works on the one and only playable skill.
      mwh: I can't do it on Nightmare either.
      Stubgaard: Bleep!
    • Nightmare 100% waiting for someone with big enough balls.

  • q1tm3_hrim2_V2

    • Easy Run in
      • 0:31 by Jaakko Alakopsa
      • 0:28 by Thomas Bergendorff
      • 0:27 by Thomas Bergendorff
      Lag.Com: Speedrunner see rooftops? Speedrunner jump on rooftops.
      Mandel: Wtf, that route is ingenious, I thought both this map and the other one from hrimfaxi would never be run under a minute each!
      mwh: Nice route, nice execution.
      Stubgaard: I think the same as Mandel :-)
    • Easy 100% in
      • 2:15 by Richard Skidmore
      • 1:49 by Jaakko Alakopsa
      Lag.Com: Great quad usage, there.
      Mandel: Nice going, Jaakko. Beating a Morfans demo is one of my own long term goals.
      mwh: Coop 100%s on this map should be awesome.
      Stubgaard: Who need bunnies when you can just think up a smarter and faster route!
    • Nightmare Run in 1:02 by Richard Skidmore.
      Lag.Com: Poor shamblers never knew what hit 'em.
      Mandel: Nice to see Morfans on the slopes... Daring exit with 6 health here!
      mwh: I can see getting splatted at the end getting annoying when trying this run.
      Stubgaard: Proper skill level, proper demo, proper exit stats! Yay!
    • Nightmare 100% not done yet, pussies.

  • tcoa

    • Easy Run in
      • 0:47 by Nathan Egan
      • 0:41 by Michael Hudson
      • 0:33 by Michael Hudson
      • 0:31 by Thomas Bergendorff
      Lag.Com: That's a mighty fine route.
      Mandel: While I was running around looking for keys and stuff, the smart guys simply run around looking for explosives. Good plan...
      mwh: It's a shame that there's no sensible route involving a quad boost...
      Stubgaard: I figured the fastest route would end up looking something like this.
    • Easy 100% in 3:54 by Jaakko Alakopsa.
      Lag.Com: Hey, this is a pretty level! Also, extra points for exiting on 1 health.
      Mandel: Now we know what every part of tcoa looks like :)
      mwh: Again, I wish there was more boosting involved.
      Stubgaard: Interesting route planning, not sure if it's the best way to approach the map though...
    • This being a Trinca map, I imagine Nightmare is kind of scary...

  • Single player demos on OTHER MAPS:

    • catacomb Nightmare 100% in 0:55 by Damian Kulot, beating himself by 3 seconds.
      Lag.Com: All I know about this map is that it has a really fast run.
      Mandel: Ankh is the new Jozsef, or Connor, or something! Or will be :) Neat!
      mwh: Sticking with the masochistic level choices I see...
      Stubgaard: Go go Gadget!

    • con1 Easy and Nightmare 100% in 0:19 and 0:19 by Thomas Bergendorff both beating Fabian Kollakowski by 1 second.
      Lag.Com: Can't really do much better than that on this rubbish.
      Mandel: Didn't like this piece of rubbish one bit. Just kidding... It's a pair of good old lodis demos!
      mwh: Good demos, bad map.
      Stubgaard: My eyes! I vote for this one as worst map on SDA. Neat demos though!

    • hellbrid Easy Run in 0:34 by Dmitry Dementjev, beating Rutger Baks by 3 seconds.
      Lag.Com: Quite an eventful demo!
      Mandel: Quite an eventful demo!
      mwh: Quite an eventful demo!
      Stubgaard: Quite an eventful demo!

    • pushcoag Nightmare Run in 1:58 by Adam Lewandowski, beating Stefan Schwoon by 9 seconds.
      Lag.Com: This map is quite irritating.
      Mandel: I don't see anything wrong with this map! Of course it's not runnable, but it will always remind me of the brief comeback Stefan did in 2004 :)
      mwh: Why did we add this map?
      Stubgaard: Hats off to anyone who has attempted to speedrun this map! And pants off to Adam "Big Lewandowski" for picking THIS map to do his first single player record on!

  • COOPS FROM FLORIDA (all 2-Player by Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski):

    • blister 2-Player

      • Easy Run in 0:36 and 0:35 (SP time 0:39).
      • Easy 100% in 0:41 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 6 seconds.
      • Nightmare Run in 0:35 tablefiller (SP time 0:40)
      • Nightmare 100% in 0:41 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 5 seconds.

    • colony Easy 100% in 0:54 beating Evan Wagner and Cameron Engles by 7 seconds.

    • forrit Easy and Nightmare 100% in 0:25 and 0:30 beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 2 and 3 seconds.

    • ftfs100b

      • Easy Run in 0:20 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 1 second.
      • Easy 100% in 0:29 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 2 seconds.
      • Nightmare Run in 0:27 tablefiller (SP time 0:36).
      • Nightmare 100% in 1:05 tablefiller (SP time 1:32).

    • lfdm4 2-Player Easy Manual 100% in 0:19 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 2 seconds.

    • misery Easy and Nightmare 100% in 0:23 and 0:23 beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds each time.

    • pagan3 Easy and Nightmare 100% in 0:19 and 0:19 beating Luc de Mestre and Pif de Mestre by 2 seconds each time.

    • scream 2-Player Easy 100% in 0:49 beating Jaakko Alakopsa and David Spickermann by 2 seconds.

    • thecrypt 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:55 beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 4 seconds.

    • theledge Easy and Nightmare 100% in 0:26 and 0:26 beating Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre by 6 seconds each time.

As a bonus, try and rearrange these comments to the correct Cali-coops:

• Former DM maps are good for coop, aren't they?
• Good work surviving on Nightmare. This map is unfriendly.
• That's far too many scrags for one level.
• Tick, tick, tick, tick, boom!
• Simple on Easy. Do it on Nightmare, go on!
• At least it isn't avatar.
• Barada klaata nikto.
• Ah, memories of my first submitted demo..
• Some of these aren't half bad, and some are NHs...
• Lickety split.

You might think that's quite enough content to chew on for now. However, we just love cramming it in your face, so here's the official SpeedCon 2006: DaneCon webpage! Check it out to get a full view of the general devastation three speedrunners wrought upon the fair city of Copenhagen. Also, if you haven't watched any of their demos, it's a good opportunity to see how it's done when you don't have to worry about silly things such as lag.

Hah, now you have to work out whether to watch the new records or look at their page first!

I managed to convince Danish mapper Hrimfaxi to fix a few bugs on two of his maps so we could add them to our lovely archive. It didn't really take that much, all I had to do was ask (Stubby standing behind me with a baseball bat screaming things in Danish probably helped - though I'm not sure they understood eachother, see this for an explanation why).
To finish off we added Trincas new map as well. It's been bugtested by Morfans among others!

• Raisins in a Box by Hrimfaxi. Large map, I really like it. I like grey maps. Yes. They remind me of the porridge I ate as a young speedrunner. Call your demos hri1_XXX.
• Careful with that Axe.... by Hrimfaxi. I'm looking forward to the 100%s on this map. Call your demos hri2_XXX.
• The City of Angels by Trinca. I got lost on this map and had to call for help ("mommy???"). Call your demos tcoa_XXX.

Have fun!

Deja Doom contest is finished and its winners are Arturo Garcia Lasca and Thomas Bergendorff. Congratulations to Arturo and Thomas, and of course a big thanks to everyone who sent a demo!

Everyone who sent in a demo can also thank himself for being smart and earning at least one point in The Third SDA Championship ladder!

These may be the general demos you're after though.

We have a new and very productive coop team in this update, but lets start with the mere eleven single player demos, only four of which are single player ID demos:

• the Installation Nightmare 100% in 1:23 by Thomas Stubgaard, beating Jozsef Szalontai by 1 second.
  Lag.Com:
  lodis: My favourite moment is how he places the grenade at the gold key door - it's those small details that make it beautiful.
  Mandel: More closely shaven than lodis' ass!
  Morfans: Not bad, but I can see how it could be done faster. :-P
  mwh: I know Stubgaard sweated blood for this, but even if I didn't I'd still be impressed.
  Stubgaard: ...and I suppose you're the one to show us how, Morfans? ;-)

• Azure Agony Easy 100% in 1:52 and 1:50 by Aleksander Osipov, beating himself by 1 and then 3 seconds.
  lodis: My my, what a treat. Backwardsbunnies onto slopes, aiming and shooting in the middle of a bunny...lovely.
  Mandel: The 1:52 was freaking sweet and had me screaming. Guess what the 1:50 had me doing!
  Morfans: Every time I see this improved I think it can't go any further. Three more seconds? Impossible. This didn't happen.
  mwh: How is this possible? It could have been 1:49 with more luck...
  Stubgaard: Smooth as silk, cowboy aim and lots of luck with the baddies... This demo is a treat!

• the Nameless City Easy 100% in 2:39 by Karol Urbanski, beating himself by 3 seconds.
  lodis: Nice, dex is improving by the day, a player to watch out for.
  Mandel: How long can we keep calling and thinking of Dex as a newbie :)
  Morfans: Fuck me this is impressive. Not sure the slight bad luck would drop it by a second so I would label this as *wheee*
  mwh: A small improvement we asked for, a thrilling ride we got.
  Stubgaard: Karol just gets better and better. Not many newcomers can come along and claim ID single player records these days. Impressive.

• catacomb Easy 100% in 0:57 and Nightmare 100% in 0:58 by Damian Kulot, beating Fabian Kollakowski by 3 seconds (twice).
  lodis: This map is horrible, credit goes to Ankh for actually putting up with it for more than 30 seconds.
  Morfans: Tried this myself a while back. Found the map too annoying to play for very long. Fair play to Ankh for making this look so good. The guy's really rollin'.
  mwh: I can easily believe that this map is very annoying.
  Stubgaard: As Morfans said, ugly and annoying map. Why don't you pick a 'proper' map to run next time, Damian? :-) Anything by Necros is a good choice...

• crucible Easy 100% in 1:15 then 1:12 and Nightmare 100% in 2:00 by Damian Kulot, beating Daniel Lindberg by 6 and then 9 seconds, and Richard Skidmore by 13.
  lodis: Confusing map, I enjoyed the demos.
  Morfans: Glad somebody improved the EH. Was pleasantly suprised to see that the EH route could be adapted to the NH. Ithought I couldn't. But then what do i know??
  mwh: Ankh's getting good, but Morfans-baiting can only be... encouraged.
  Stubgaard: Ugly map, good demos!

• n3_100b Nightmare Run in 1:55 and 100% in 2:12 by Richard Skidmore, beating Flavio Quadros by 30 and Jaakko Alakopsa by 41 seconds.
  lodis: Morfans is the only person I know who enjoys headbutting shamblers.
  Morfans: I couldn't live with having Ginko's timid shambler kills on this hallowed archive, so I did the NH. Bergie showed me the fast exit so I did the NR. I will never touch this map again!!! :-)
  mwh: This is still Stubgaard's fault, I believe.
  Stubgaard: "Anything by Necros is a good choice"... Except for this one! :-)

Aaaaaand the coops. We have 16 two player coops, all from Floridans Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski. They had heard that some of the demos by the notorious de Mestre clan were probably not optimal, and set about proving this with some gusto:

• First up, a quick two-player total coop ownage on jjspq2:
  • Easy Run: 0:37, 3 seconds faster.
  • Easy 100%: 1:07, 7 seconds faster.
  • Nightmare Run: 0:38, 2 seconds faster.
  • Nightmare 100%: 1:08, 7 seconds faster.
• Then an even quicker 2PTCO on elin:
  • Easy Run: 0:06 1 second faster.
  • Easy 100%: 0:10 1 second faster.
  • Nightmare Run: 0:06 (this one is actually a tablefiller, not a de Mestre-beater)
  • Nightmare 100%: 0:13 2 seconds faster.
• They fell one short of TO on thecrypt:
  • Easy Run: 0:36, 2 seconds faster.
  • Easy 100%: 0:39, 1 second faster.
  • Nightmare Run: 0:37, 3 seconds faster
  • Nightmare 100%: OOPS! Forgot to record this one?
• msrj saw a sweet pair of 100%s, 0:22 on Easy (5 seconds faster) and 0:39 on Nightmare (only 1 second faster).
• The Easy demos on klz100b2 got a smartening, the Run taking 0:17 (2 seconds faster) and the 100% taking 0:25 (1 second faster).
• Finally, they recorded a solitary demo on chain3 (I can't think about this map without thinking about Denn's sublime ER on it...), the old Easy 100% taking an 8 second beating from this 1:21.

Relying on the well tested principle "MORE PLAYERS: MORE FUN", Jason and Adam hauled in Quake-novice John Van Dusen and took THREE player total coop ownage on the now-well practiced jjspq2 with four tablefillers:

• Easy Run: 0:26
• Easy 100%: 0:45
• Nightmare Run: 0:26
• Nightmare 100%: 0:45

Th-th-th-th-that's all folks! Apart from the contest results, which have to wait for Mandel to get home from work.

Time for the third round in the third championship! In Deja Doom we'll be running our boots bloody on "Dimension of the Diminished" by Flavio Quadros. Easy run and easy 100% demos should be in our inbox no later than Midnight CET, Sunday February 11th 2007.

Everyone who participates will be rewarded points to get a position in The Third SDA Championship ladder! Thus; MAKE DEMOS!

All demos download for this glorious piece of news can be found right here!

Hey and welcome to the second cooperative update ever. This time around, the two fools writing it are Mandel and Stubgaard. Get your hopes up...

• The Nameless City easy 100% in 2:42 by Karol Urbanski, beating Jozsef Szalontai by 2 seconds.
  Mandel: id demos are always nice. Specially the ones that show a small opportunity for further improvement :)
  Stubgaard: I was a bit perplexed by the bunnies at the start, but overall this is a very nice demo. Congratulations to Karol for his 2nd ID SP record!

• The Underearth 2-player nightmare 100% in 1:51 by Thomas Stubgaard and Mathias Thore, beating Nolan and Justin by 4 seconds.
  Stubgaard: I blame Mathias for picking this map...!
  Mandel: I was not responsible for picking anything! Not even my belly button!

• hdn easy 100% in 2:29 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating Damian Kulot by 13 seconds.
  Mandel: I just long to see Lodis tackle hdn along Ankh's route (which was more bombastic =) Excellent running in this one.
  Stubgaard: I thought Anhk's demo was very good, but our very own Bergie apparently figured out he could use his old route to beat the new one with... hmm... brilliant!

• crucible nightmare 100% in 2:13 by Richard Skidmore, beating Matthias Belz by 17 seconds.
  Mandel: There's nothing more exciting than watching Morfans perform quadded rocket jumps at the end of long NH demos...
  Stubgaard: I always shed a tear when one of Belz's records is beaten... *sniff sniff*

• n3_100b nightmare run in 2:25 by Flavio Quadros. Tablefiller.
  Mandel: Was this an attempt at NH? =) There really wasn't much missing!
  Stubgaard: I'm responsible for adding this map to the archive... SO SHOOT ME! :-)

• hellctle nightmare run in 1:30 by Flavio Quadros, beating Peter Horvath by 1 second.
  Mandel: GOOD to see this "oldest demo in any archive ever" finally beat by... ONE FULL SECOND!
  Stubgaard: It's always puzzled me why no-one could beat Horvath's old demo... Well, finally someone did... by ONE second... pffft! :-)

• hobr easy 100% in 2:50 by Flavio Quadros, beating Jaakko Alakopsa by 35 seconds.
  Mandel: Little messy at the end, but otherwise this looks SOLID! How can I learn to aim like that?
  Stubgaard: More demos on this map please!

• chessp1 nightmare 100% in 1:24 by Karol Urbanski, beating Nolan by 4 seconds.
  Mandel: Id record AND this record done in what I believe Karol himself referred to as his "break from speedrunning" ;)
  Stubgaard: Hooray

Besides this, don't miss out on the action Stubgaard is causing on the Quake done 100% Quickest project page. A never ending stream of fuckening excellent demos have been coming from the hand of the Dane lately. Be sure to check it out here.

You can download all the demos in this high-quality update here.

• Hell's Atrium Nightmare 100% in 2:12 by Thomas Stubgaard, beating himself by 5 seconds.
  Stubgaard: it's more about being lucky than anything else :)
  mwh: It's a Stubgaard ID1 NH, of course it's good ... also watch the Qd100Qst demo while we're on the map.

• r1m2 Easy Run in 1:21 by Tom Nguyen, beating Robert Axelsson by 10 seconds.
  Stubgaard: unsuspected butter-smoothness from nguyen, quite a beautiful demo too
  mwh: I consider this demo to be at least partly my fault :) It's better than I hoped for too!

• chessp1 Easy 100% in 0:41 by Arturo Garcia Lasca, beating Basil de Vries by 11 seconds.
  Stubgaard: err, did he pick a new route or something?
  mwh: Basil was right about this being a much faster route then.

• coagula Nightmare Run in 0:12 by Mathias Thore, beating Robert Axelsson by 1 second.
  Stubgaard: Optimal? I believe so! beautiful demo too...
  mwh: More bunny power from the modern bunny master

• commctr Easy 100% in 1:37 by Thomas Bergendorff, beating Carl Tholin by 12 seconds.
  Stubgaard: High quality demo, 'nuff said!
  mwh: Another smooth as silk Bergie EH

• frostbite Easy 100% in 1:54 by Flavio Quadros, beating himself by 25 seconds.
  Stubgaard: Best demo yet from Flavio if you ask me. Good stuff!
  mwh: In another update, this might be the demo of the update. In this one, it just fits right in...

• hdn Easy 100% in 2:42 by Damian Kulot, beating Thomas Bergendorff by 11 seconds.
  Stubgaard: The first "suprise" demo of the year I'd say! Top notch playing and brilliant tricks all the way through. Can we expect to see the NH next? Pretty please...?
  mwh: This is FUCKING FUN TO WATCH

• hellbrid Easy Run in 0:37 by Rutger Baks, beating Dmitry Dementjev by 1 second.
  Stubgaard: Tricks! And lots of them!
  mwh: Trick after trick.

• hobr Easy Run in 1:05 by Flavio Quadros, beating Tom Nguyen by 1 second.
  Stubgaard: I'd like to see more 100% demos on this map... oh, nice demo btw :-)
  mwh: I reckon this is about 1 second better than the previous demo.

• lfdm4full Nightmare 100% in 0:30 by Jonathan Lenhardt, beating himself by 2 seconds.
  Stubgaard: It's a shame this dude hasn't made more than a handful of demos :/
  mwh: Lots of action in this one.

• ne_dust2 Easy 100% in 2:39 by Karol Urbanski, beating Jaakko Alakopsa by 5 seconds.
  Stubgaard: no comment
  mwh: Could be better...

• ne_dust2 Easy 100% in 2:19 by Karol Urbanski, beating himself by 20 seconds.
  Stubgaard: Monster infightning is the key to this little enjoyable map from my favorite mapper
  mwh: ... like this :-)

• ne_dust2 2-Player Easy Run in 0:02 and 2-Player Nightmare Run in 0:02 by Mathias Thore and Robert Maglic, beating Jaakko Alakopsa and Aleksander Osipov by 1 second.
  Stubgaard: This is just silly...
  mwh: Rattle-blam.

• pb1 Easy Run in 0:15 by Arturo Garcia Lasca, beating himself by 18 seconds.
  Stubgaard: What's the deal with the ugly movement with the mouse after having performed the trick?
  mwh: Now this is a crazy trick.

Happy new year! If all the demos this year are as good as this lot, we're in for a great year.